This collection of diary entries, and added musings, kept during the first year of living in Istanbul, gives a light-hearted (notwithstanding fatal terrorist bomb attacks, a suspected murder, an exorcism, and various encounters of a curious kind) look at Istanbul in 2003. With its chaotic blend of energy and peace, dereliction and gentrification, old and new, Istanbul finds its way into even the most hardened of travellers' hearts - and so the love affair begins.
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